Mon, Mar 9, 2020·STAPLES Center, Los Angeles
Colorado Avalanche 1, Los Angeles Kings 3
Expected result
Based on shot quality alone, Los Angeles Kings win this game 84% of the time.
By period
Goals and shots on goal in each period.
| Team | P1 | P2 | P3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COL | 04 | 08 | 110 | 122 |
| LAK | 211 | 016 | 18 | 335 |
Goals, with shots on goal in grey.
Scoring
Every goal, with the change it made to the home team's win probability.
- P1 14:22LAKAustin WagnerAssists: Nikolai Prokhorkin, Sean Walker · Wrist, 0.14 xG0–1
- P1 15:25LAKMikey AndersonGWGAssists: Martin Frk, Gabriel Vilardi · Wrist, 0.01 xG0–2
- P3 2:19COLPierre-Edouard BellemareAssists: Ian Cole · Wrist, 0.03 xG1–2
- P3 14:35LAKAlex IafalloAssists: Ben Hutton, Drew Doughty · Backhand, 0.11 xG1–3
Penalties (4)
- P1 6:30COLSamuel Girard: Cross checking2 min
- P2 6:04LAKMatt Roy: Interference2 min
- P2 13:15LAKSean Walker: Penalty shot hooking on breakaway0 min
- P3 2:55COLNikita Zadorov: Holding2 min
Replay
Watch the game unfold on the ice: every shot, hit, turnover and faceoff appears as it happened, then fades. Drag the timeline to jump; goals are marked on it.
20:00
P1
- P1 20:00Kopitar won the faceoff against MacKinnon
- Goal
- Shot
- Miss
- Block
- Hit
- Takeaway
- Giveaway
- Faceoff
- Penalty
The numbers
Team totals, side by side.
Line combinations that worked
Model-basedEach team's forward lines and defence pairs at 5-on-5 (two minutes or more together), best first by expected goals for minus against. Shift data for this game is incomplete, so treat these as rough.
Colorado Avalanche
Forward lines
- bestNieto – Bellemare – O'Connor2:33
xG 0.31–0.07 (82%)attempts 5–1goals 1–0
- Landeskog – Compher – Nichushkin5:30
xG 0.19–0.05 (77%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0
- Landeskog – Namestnikov – MacKinnon8:00
xG 0.40–0.29 (58%)attempts 6–7goals 0–1
- Donskoi – Namestnikov – Jost2:00
xG 0.21–0.12 (63%)attempts 3–2goals 0–1
Defence pairs
- Connauton – Girard2:42
xG 0.10–0.07 (58%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0
- Johnson – Graves2:39
xG 0.03–0.05 (36%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0
- Cole – Zadorov3:17
xG 0.21–0.40 (35%)attempts 4–5goals 1–0
Los Angeles Kings
Forward lines
- bestFrk – Moore – Vilardi3:46
xG 0.41–0.04 (91%)attempts 4–2goals 1–1
- Lewis – Kempe – Lizotte10:23
xG 0.60–0.31 (66%)attempts 14–7goals 0–0
- Prokhorkin – Amadio – Wagner7:16
xG 0.59–0.31 (66%)attempts 6–6goals 1–0
- Brown – Kopitar – Iafallo12:41
xG 0.31–0.49 (38%)attempts 11–10goals 1–0
Defence pairs
- bestRoy – Anderson16:38
xG 1.22–0.89 (58%)attempts 18–19goals 2–1
- Doughty – Hutton20:26
xG 0.55–0.50 (53%)attempts 18–11goals 1–0
How the game flowed
Model-basedChance quality for each side, minute by minute, with pressure underneath.
Running total of expected goals for each team. Steep climbs are spells of pressure; dots are goals. Shaded bands mark power plays (team colour), 4-on-4 or 3-on-3 (grey) and empty nets.
Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute
Win probability
Model-basedHow each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.
LAK's chance of winning through the game. Above the middle line LAK is favoured, below it COL. Dots are goals.
Did the better team win?
Every shot replayed 10,000 times, scoring with its expected-goal probability.
Based on shot quality alone, Los Angeles Kings win this game 84% of the time.
Simulated goal difference (LAK − COL), 10,000 replays
The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).